Johnny Sexton will join Andy Farrell’s British and Irish Lions coaching team for this summer’s tour of Australia.
He joins Richard Wigglesworth, Simon Easterby, John Dalziel, Andrew Goodman and John Fogarty in the coaching squad announced last month.
Former Ireland fly-half-Sexton, who retired after the 2023 World Cup, played on two Lions tours in 2013 and 2017.
He has been working with Ireland in a casual coaching capacity since the Autumn Nations Series and will take up a full-time position with the Irish Rugby Football Union from August 1.
Sexton
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